1. Import cleaned .csv file and look at dataframe.

2. Remove excess columns and calcuate other factors of interest.

3. Where are the processed cores from?


4. Plotting by site and region

Total OM (right column) and IM content (left column)


You will notice that site L06 is way different than the rest. This core was loaded with chunky woody debris and this site had a lot of woody debris at the surface; it’s real data but an outlier compared to the other sites. Here are two images of the sliced core from site L06:


For the sake of looking at regional patterns, let’s remove site L06.







Here are the data grouped by sea otter zone (without L06)

The red lines represent the mean values for the length of the entire core.


It looks like the low sea otter zone has more organic and inorganic matter in the sediments, and the mid sites have a nice range that tracks through depth.



4. Plotting across the SOI